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Writing this from the shores of Lake Huron. It’s a clear night, and while we’re very far from the wilderness, we’re also not exactly near a big city. Which means you can walk along the beach at night and actually see stars, things we only see in Brooklyn if there’s a total power blackout.

Raising a child amid such egregious light pollution may be a form of abuse. I just hope when he grows up, he doesn’t decide to build an army of white robots and try to destroy the universe.

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For the high point of the Perseid meteor shower, I went to Mont Megantic, in the SE corner of Quebec, near the borders with Maine and Vermont. To preserve a view of the night sky, there is “The Mt. Megantic International Dark Sky Reserve cover[ing] an area of almost 5,500 km2. It is centered on the Observatory within the provincial park and has a radius of 50 km.”